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This week in Anchorage Politics: Early Voting, A New Ballot Initiative, Assembly Kills Bronson’s Proposal

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Voting Underway With Important Issues At Stake Early voting started Oct. 24, with over 30,000 ballots already returned. On the ballot this year are an adequately funded education system and abortion rights.  Anchorage School District (ASD) is facing a $68 million...
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SplitTicket: Peltola Looks Set to Defy Political Gravity

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Mary Peltola’s upset victory in the special election to fill the remainder of longtime GOP Rep. Don Young’s term has many wondering - can she defy political gravity and win a full term? Because of the incumbent’s broad appeal,...
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Is Stanley Wright Working on Homelessness or Not?

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On Friday, Ted Eischeid, Democratic candidate for House District 22, tweeted that his campaign received a cease and desist letter from Republican challenger Stanley Wright's attorneys, stating a campaign door hanger claiming Wright is working on the Municipality of...
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In Keeping with Tradition, Bronson Finds Municipal Job for Political Ally who Failed Confirmation

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Mario Bird, whose confirmation for Municipal Attorney was denied by the Assembly, has been hired by the administration as an assistant attorney with a yearly salary of $114,982.40.  Bird’s installation into the Municipal Attorney's office as an assistant municipal attorney...
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Three Weeks Before He Died, Don Young Warned the Alaska GOP About Nick Begich

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Just weeks before the late Rep. Don Young died on a flight back to Alaska, he gave a stern warning at a state GOP convention: Nick Begich III is not to be trusted. Rep. Young dished on Begich in a...
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APOC punts on Dunleavy support group until after the election, but warns GOP group spends more ‘at its own peril’

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This story is republished with permission from Dermot Cole and originally appeared on dermotcole.com. The Alaska Public Offices Commission couldn’t decide whether the decision by the Republican Governors Association to create a $3 million bank account and call it an independent...
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Bronson’s Power Play Fails as Assembly Rejects Further Spending on Navigation Center

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Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson’s attempt to strong-arm the Anchorage Assembly into approving his Navigation Center by authorizing a contractor to secretly rack up an enormous bill failed last night in a 9-3 vote. The meeting took place a few weeks...
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Demboski and Trombley No Strangers to Cost Overruns by Hickel Contracting

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Earlier this month, Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson’s administration admitted it let a $50,000 contract balloon to a $5 million bill without required Assembly approval. Turns out, it’s not the first time members of the Bronson administration let Roger Hickel...
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A Bitter Pill: Tshibaka’s Contraception Extremism

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For months, Alaskans have seen ads stating U.S. Senate hopeful Kelly Tshibaka told a crowd she would ban birth control, and that she views birth control bills as similar to emergency contraception. Tshibaka has said these are wrong and...
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This week in Anchorage Politics: The City Starts Abating Centennial, Bronson Again Stalls on The Golden Lion

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Abatement: You Don’t Have a Home, but You Can’t Stay Here The conversation at Wednesday’s Anchorage Assembly Committee on Housing and Homelessness meeting largely centered on whether the city can resume abating camps. The administration began to clear out the Centennial...
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